Executive Summary

Summary
Title krb5 security and bugfix update
Informations
Name RHSA-2008:0164 First vendor Publication 2008-03-18
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2008-03-18
Severity (Vendor) Critical Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

Updated krb5 packages that resolve several issues and fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other through use of symmetric encryption and a trusted third party, the KDC.

A flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos Authentication Service and Key Distribution Center server (krb5kdc) handled Kerberos v4 protocol packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the krb5kdc daemon, disclose portions of its memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code using malformed or truncated Kerberos v4 protocol requests. (CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063)

This issue only affected krb5kdc with Kerberos v4 protocol compatibility enabled, which is the default setting on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Kerberos v4 protocol support can be disabled by adding "v4_mode=none" (without the quotes) to the "[kdcdefaults]" section of /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf.

Jeff Altman of Secure Endpoints discovered a flaw in the RPC library as used by MIT Kerberos kadmind server. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash kadmind or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected systems with certain resource limits configured and did not affect systems using default resource limits used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. (CVE-2008-0947)

Red Hat would like to thank MIT for reporting these issues.

Multiple memory management flaws were discovered in the GSSAPI library used by MIT Kerberos. These flaws could possibly result in use of already freed memory or an attempt to free already freed memory blocks (double-free flaw), possibly causing a crash or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2007-5901, CVE-2007-5971)

In addition to the security issues resolved above, the following bugs were also fixed:

* delegated krb5 credentials were not properly stored when SPNEGO was the underlying mechanism during GSSAPI authentication. Consequently, applications attempting to copy delegated Kerberos 5 credentials into a credential cache received an "Invalid credential was supplied" message rather than a copy of the delegated credentials. With this update, SPNEGO credentials can be properly searched, allowing applications to copy delegated credentials as expected.

* applications can initiate context acceptance (via gss_accept_sec_context) without passing a ret_flags value that would indicate that credentials were delegated. A delegated credential handle should have been returned in such instances. This updated package adds a temp_ret_flag that stores the credential status in the event no other ret_flags value is passed by an application calling gss_accept_sec_context.

* kpasswd did not fallback to TCP on receipt of certain errors, or when a packet was too big for UDP. This update corrects this.

* when the libkrb5 password-routine generated a set-password or change-password request, incorrect sequence numbers were generated for all requests subsequent to the first request. This caused password change requests to fail if the primary server was unavailable. This updated package corrects this by saving the sequence number value after the AP-REQ data is built and restoring this value before the request is generated.

* when a user's password expired, kinit would not prompt that user to change the password, instead simply informing the user their password had expired. This update corrects this behavior: kinit now prompts for a new password to be set when a password has expired.

All krb5 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported fixes to address these vulnerabilities and fix these bugs.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

415321 - CVE-2007-5901 krb5: use-after-free in gssapi lib 415351 - CVE-2007-5971 krb5: double free in gssapi lib 432620 - CVE-2008-0062 krb5: uninitialized pointer use in krb5kdc 432621 - CVE-2008-0063 krb5: possible leak of sensitive data from krb5kdc using krb4 request 433596 - CVE-2008-0947 krb5: file descriptor array overflow in RPC library 436460 - gss_krb5_copy_ccache can't find delegated Kerberos creds when using SPNEGO 436465 - gss_init_sec_context() mechglue wrapper doesn't handle ret_flags right 436467 - kpasswd does not fallback to tcp 436468 - krb5 password changing uses incorrect sequence numbers for every server but the first 436470 - kinit does not automatically start a password change when password is expired

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

Id Name
CAPEC-26 Leveraging Race Conditions
CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
CAPEC-172 Time and State Attacks

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
25 % CWE-665 Improper Initialization
25 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10296
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10296
Title: Double free vulnerability in the gss_krb5int_make_seal_token_v3 function in lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors.
Description: Double free vulnerability in the gss_krb5int_make_seal_token_v3 function in lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2007-5971
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10984
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10984
Title: Buffer overflow in the RPC library used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.
Description: Buffer overflow in the RPC library used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-0947
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11451
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11451
Title: Use-after-free vulnerability in the gss_indicate_mechs function in lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: this might be the result of a typo in the source code.
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the gss_indicate_mechs function in lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: this might be the result of a typo in the source code.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2007-5901
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17145
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17145
Title: USN-587-1 -- krb5 vulnerabilities
Description: It was discovered that krb5 did not correctly handle certain krb4 requests.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-587-1
CVE-2008-0062
CVE-2008-0063
CVE-2008-0947
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10
Product(s): krb5
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20288
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20288
Title: DSA-1524-1 krb5 - multiple vulnerabilities
Description: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the kdc component of the krb5, a system for authenticating users and services on a network.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1524-1
CVE-2008-0062
CVE-2008-0063
CVE-2008-0947
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): krb5
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22707
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22707
Title: ELSA-2008:0164: krb5 security and bugfix update (Critical)
Description: Buffer overflow in the RPC library used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2008:0164-01
CVE-2007-5901
CVE-2007-5971
CVE-2008-0062
CVE-2008-0063
CVE-2008-0947
Version: 25
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): krb5
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8094
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8094
Title: DSA-1524 krb5 -- several vulnerabilities
Description: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the kdc component of the krb5, a system for authenticating users and services on a network. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: An unauthenticated remote attacker may cause a krb4-enabled KDC to crash, expose information, or execute arbitrary code. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could compromise the Kerberos key database and host security on the KDC host. An unauthenticated remote attacker may cause a krb4-enabled KDC to expose information. It is theoretically possible for the exposed information to include secret key data on some platforms. An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause memory corruption in the kadmind process, which is likely to cause kadmind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. It is at least theoretically possible for such corruption to result in database corruption or arbitrary code execution, though we have no such exploit and are not aware of any such exploits in use in the wild. In versions of MIT Kerberos shipped by Debian, this bug can only be triggered in configurations that allow large numbers of open file descriptors in a process.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1524
CVE-2008-0062
CVE-2008-0063
CVE-2008-0947
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
Product(s): krb5
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8916
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8916
Title: The Kerberos 4 support in KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not properly clear the unused portion of a buffer when generating an error message, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, aka "Uninitialized stack values."
Description: The Kerberos 4 support in KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not properly clear the unused portion of a buffer when generating an error message, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, aka "Uninitialized stack values."
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-0063
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9496
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9496
Title: KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not set a global variable for some krb4 message types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted messages that trigger a NULL pointer dereference or double-free.
Description: KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not set a global variable for some krb4 message types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted messages that trigger a NULL pointer dereference or double-free.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-0062
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 39
Os 56
Os 55
Os 4
Os 2
Os 2
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2010-05-28 Name : Ubuntu Update for krb5 vulnerabilities USN-940-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_940_1.nasl
2010-04-09 Name : Ubuntu Update for krb5 vulnerabilities USN-924-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_924_1.nasl
2009-11-17 Name : Mac OS X Version
File : nvt/macosx_version.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for krb5 MDVSA-2008:070 (krb5)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_070.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for krb5 MDVSA-2008:069 (krb5)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_069.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for krb5 vulnerabilities USN-587-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_587_1.nasl
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for krb5 RHSA-2008:0164-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0164-01_krb5.nasl
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for krb5 RHSA-2008:0180-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0180-01_krb5.nasl
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for krb5 RHSA-2008:0181-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0181-01_krb5.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : CentOS Update for krb5-devel CESA-2008:0180 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0180_krb5-devel_centos4_i386.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : CentOS Update for krb5-devel CESA-2008:0181 centos3 x86_64
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0181_krb5-devel_centos3_x86_64.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : CentOS Update for krb5-devel CESA-2008:0181 centos3 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0181_krb5-devel_centos3_i386.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : CentOS Update for krb5 CESA-2008:0181-01 centos2 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0181-01_krb5_centos2_i386.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : CentOS Update for krb5-devel CESA-2008:0180 centos4 x86_64
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0180_krb5-devel_centos4_x86_64.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for krb5 FEDORA-2008-2647
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_2647_krb5_fc8.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for krb5 FEDORA-2008-2637
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_2637_krb5_fc7.nasl
2009-01-23 Name : SuSE Update for krb5 SUSE-SA:2008:016
File : nvt/gb_suse_2008_016.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200803-31 (mit-krb5)
File : nvt/glsa_200803_31.nasl
2008-06-17 Name : Kerberos < 1.6.4 vulnerability
File : nvt/kerberos_CB-A08-0044.nasl
2008-03-19 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1524-1 (krb5)
File : nvt/deb_1524_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
43346 MIT Kerberos 5 lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c gss_indicate_mechs Function...

43345 MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c gss_krb5int_make_seal_token_...

43343 MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) libgssrpc / kadmind RPC Library File Descriptor Handlin...

43342 MIT Kerberos 5 KDC (krb5kdc) Error Response Information Disclosure

43341 MIT Kerberos 5 KDC (krb5kdc) Arbitrary Memory Disclosure

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0164.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0180.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0181.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-09 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-924-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0182.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20080318_krb5_on_SL3_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-05-20 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-940-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-06 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2008-0164.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-27 Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat...
File : vmware_VMSA-2008-0009.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-069.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-070.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-2637.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-2647.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-26 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200803-31.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-21 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2008-0180.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-21 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1524.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-19 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0181.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-19 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0180.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-19 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0164.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-19 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_krb5-5081.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-19 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_krb5-5082.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-19 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-587-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-19 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2008-002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-19 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2008-0181.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-01-16 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_krb5-4851.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-01-16 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_krb5-4852.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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